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Commentaire de Izmak

These were hitting me for around 600-800 with 52% armor mitigation. They are, however - fairly easily kiteable.

Commentaire de seluca

Giant's Run is at 65,27 if you have coords

Commentaire de lampshade4ahead

solo'd as a 70 affliction lock. just load him up with dots, cast Curse of Exhaustion, and kite him

Commentaire de Lizzle

Easily soloable by an Elemental Shaman. Just Frostshock kite the giants on the outer edge of Giants' Run. You don't have to kite very far, they are easy to kill. The outer edge has little to no mobs, so no real clearing is required except to get to the mobs. I had to kill about two mobs just to get to the giants. Pulling the giants won't aggro the Iron Rune Mobs, so if he's standing next to them, it's ok to pull him. Also, be sure you're killing the right mobs, the Runed Stoned Giants should be in red to you, not yellow.

Commentaire de FuzionInfinity

Not easy, but soloable as a prot warrior (with good gear).

Commentaire de Owen

Pretty easy to solo as a 70 BM hunter with 2 T5. They hit harder than the trees in Sketties but die faster.

Commentaire de Owen

Pretty easy to solo as a 70 BM hunter with 2 T5. They hit harder than the trees in Sketties but die faster.

Commentaire de blanche

soloable by a death knight in greens, any spec. its a very lengthy process, but on the beta when you have to solo a lot, it works.

use chains of ice to pull, then use icy touch, and repeat the process, kiting the giant in a safe direction. and whenever you have enough runic power up use death coil. as lv71 and blood it normally takes me about 2 minutes to kill one.

Commentaire de Viper007Bond

Fearable. Have fun, Warlocks! :)

EDIT: Apparently only some of them are or something. You can instant DoT kite (even without slowing) the others. Just run and DoT.

Commentaire de badjoke

Soloed the quest and Glacion VERY easily as a T6 geared feral druid.

Commentaire de AddictedPoi

If you kill a runed giant and fail to analyse him at once, someone else can ninja analyse them. Be fast to analyse your kills

Commentaire de NobodyYouKnow

These guys move at roughly 20% faster then normal.

You can also use the druid's Entangling Roots on them. As such i am assuming you can use any and all slowing/immoblizing ability on them. However, as i recall, they are immune to the paladin's Repentance; As such i am assuming they are immune to all incapacitating effects, but stunning effects such as Hammer of justice works.

If you can move 25% faster then normal, or you can slow them down by about 20% or faster, so they move just as fast as you do while your running, you can kit them to death. Or, if your alliance, you can hug the north side of the lake by fort wildervar and kit them to the guards, and the guards will aggro onto them and kill them. You just need to get within 20 yards of the guards, and the guards will aggro and kill the thing your kitting for you. Make sure you do at least one point of damage, or else you won't get credit for the kill, although you MIGHT still be able to deactivate the runes. I hit a giant with moonfire rank one then spam kitted the giant to the guards using faere fire, and when the guards killed it, i still could loot it.

Edited fer mah baaaad speeling ><

Commentaire de bobbygamache

Easily soloed as an arcane mage. Just keep them slowed and instant cast them if you wanna be extra cautions, altough you can stop to cast spells on them while they're running after you.

Don't forget to use the pick on them after you've killed them!

Commentaire de Tankadinious

Soloable for a BM hunter, with aid of frost trapping and healing pet to full when pet happens to run low on health.

Commentaire de BlackFlagg

There's also a quest later in Grizzly Hills - Free at Last when the quest item fails to do what it's supposed to for that quest it turns the giants into non-elites and after you kill them you can use the pick for this quest on them.

Commentaire de torwen

They use nasty dot aprox. every 5 seconds which lasts 7 seconds, does 500 damage per second and stacks! They start casting it after 10-15 seconds so nuking them fast might work. As a protection warrior I was able to spell reflect it and thus I had always maximum one stack on me. It's still challenging with mediocre gear but definitely doable.

Commentaire de Cuddlez

Be careful, these enemies could surprise you.

Of the 4, one of them killed me just as I killed it, and another I survived only by spamming food after defeating it. The last one, for whatever reason, I killed with 80% of my health left.

lvl 72 Frost DK. Possible to kite but it will take alot longer, and the area is quite populated by reds.

Commentaire de budzman444

a mark hunter can solo them good too but ur pet will mostlikely die during the fight...

Commentaire de sekiyu

This quest is super easy if you use the temporary pet from The Rune of Command quest, which is from the same area.

Commentaire de omglaserzpewpew

For some reason, I could not complete this quest. Every time I killed a runed stone giant I would attempt to use the quest item provided, but I would get an error message saying "Invalid Target."

Has anybody else had this problem? What am I doing wrong?

Commentaire de dtlindsey

I just killed 6 of them....for 2 of the 6 I had the "invalid target" problem. It lets you use the quest item on the corpse before looting, and this worked for me for the last 3, so perhaps try that.

Solo'ed as a 72 arcane/fire mage. Open with frostbolt at range, then ap/pom/trinket/pyro, arcane barrage, fire blast, arcane missiles, etc. The giants' DOT is indeed nasty, so spam mana shield when it starts. He needs to be at about 30% health by the time he's able to first hit you (i.e., back up while casting the instant casts as he's initially coming toward you).

Commentaire de Leonidas300

This quest is bugged if you are a miner and have a regular pick in inventory. Either remove your pick from inventory or group with someone who is not a miner.

Commentaire de Maldreamius

The giants you want to use the "Runeseeking Pick" on are the "Runed Stone Giants". They are up north and are hostile, unlike the "Stone Giants" wich are neutral and are being transformed by the "Iron Dwarves". Both giants look the same.

Commentaire de Janettie

You can apparently also use this on Megalith, whom is north of Giant's run.

Commentaire de Vlad

As a miner, do this:

When you kill the Runed Stone Giant, loot it by right-clicking him.

Once he is mineable, use the ITEM in your bag (quest provided) on the corpse.

After you get the credit, mine him normally by right-clicking the corpse.

Commentaire de Elsu

You must complete the quest; Down to the Wire before you can get this quest.. Down to the Wire starts at Gil Grisert on the opposite side of the fire from Researcher Aderan.

Commentaire de LunaticParadise

Instead of bothering with the DoT on the Runed Stone Giants, I found it much easier to just camp Megalith at 68,10 and use the pick on his body. As a 70 DK, he was much easier to solo. His respawn seems anywhere from a minute to 5 minutes (dont quote me for accuracy) the point is, I didn't wait long.

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Commentaire de ig0tfish

If you are on The Rune of Command then you can use the stone giants as a helper for this quest so you can solo it easier.

Commentaire de LoKHor

Very easy as a Frost mage. I had to kill six - two had "invalid target".

Commentaire de Avalonia

If he gets the dot on your stone giant he will eat it up. The dot just hurts. So, try to keep the aggro on yourself and just kite the runed stone giant while your stone giant stuns the heck out of him and gives him the same dot he gives you. Do this quest with The Rune of Command pet and it is easily soloed.

Commentaire de batbat

Hang onto this quest and wait until you get the quest Free at Last. When you free the giants from their slavery they become Non-Elite and there is a chance they will attack you. Kill them and then analyze them. Worked on all 4 that attacked me. No Failures.

Commentaire de athilmar

No, its not, i got a 3 stack on me from doing nothing but standing there, they apply it on hit. Wtg blizzard you suck.

Commentaire de Wildhorn

Some basic information about this quest:

- Get to The Rune of Command quest. It will give you a pet which gonna help alot.- Mobs you have to kill are Runed Stone Giant and not Stone Giant, which are yellow.- You need to kill them AFTER they have stepped on the giant runes on the ground and get the Bind Stone Giant buff (it look likes the anti-magic shield effect, last 30 secs but you can kill them after it wears off). - It is also this "binding" that give them their Rune Fist ability which can put on you the nasty Dark Rune debuff which stack up to 5, doing 3000 damage per 2 seconds.- If you kill them before they get this "binding", you wont be able to examine them and will get the Invalid target error message.- Best place to kill them to be sure they got the "binding" is around 72,16.

The Dark Rune is very deadly and going into melee with these mobs is very unhealty. Here is a guide for every class of how to solo them.

- Death Knight: Kite them with Chains of Ice > Icy Touch > Blood Boil > Blood Boil > Death Coil. Repeat.- Druid: Root them and nuke them.- Hunter: Kite them.- Mage: Kite them and/or spell steal the Dark Fist buff and melee them for heavy damage :)- Paladin: You can remove the DoT on yourself.- Priest: You can remove the DoT on yourself and the buff on the giant.- Rogue: Stun lock them. Cloak of Shadow if you get the DoT on you. Evasion to prevent to get hit.- Shaman: Frost Shock kite them and/or purge the buff on the giant.- Warlock: Felhunter out and eat the buff on the giant. You cant drain their hp and they are immune to fear.- Warrior: Equip a shield and Shield Slam them to remove the buff. You can also spell reflect the DoT.

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Commentaire de vladesch

I was able to kite a couple round in circes as a warlock with no speed mods. They dont always move faster than normal, but I dont know what makes them go slower or faster. I got a couple of kills this way, but then they kept "resetting" mid fight.

Just luck with the positioning. Given 3/4 of an hour Im sure you could rack up 4 kills this way.

Commentaire de angelheart

Immune to fear and drain life effects (so syphon life too)

Commentaire de Kiwiblue

Did this solo as a 75 prot pally. This fight you need to come prepared for because these guy are tough. As everyone has mentioned before he does a DoT called Dark Rune, this has to come off fast. If that was the only thing he did that wouldn't be much of the problem. The other thing these guys do is a knockdown so if you don't have good latency or are a little slow you can find yourself interrupted.

I found that trying to actually control the fight rather than slug them worked better. Hammer of Justice will buy a good bit of time to cleanse and heal. Avenger's Shield is good for getting distance from these guys so you can get a quick heal off or cleanse. Mana pots are good to have as with all the cleansing, healing and getting out of melee range (the DoT seems to have a short range) made my mana return trash. (was using Seal of Wisdom the entire fight). If you have to pop a bubble but hopefully you have mana once your in the bubble. I did use Lay on Hands twice but my kills were not all in a row so you might only get it once.

While I was able to do it at this level I would have preferred a second person. Even a dpser would have made this fight trivial.

Commentaire de thevecchio

This quest isn't really that hard. You do not need to kill them as I found out, as of December 24, 2008, all I did was run up, use the pick and collect my xp.

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Commentaire de Drelf

This is a hard quest, but extremely rewarding when you do it correctly.I read the comments. How hard could this be right?

Bottom line - do with "Rune of Command" quest.This starts with "The Book of Runes"

The area had numerous mobs.a) Runed Stone Giants - Elite - large trees (the things you need to kill) - these wander and walk slowlyb) Stone Giants - large trees which are stationary - you control these with "Rune of Command"

Hints with this...a) The summons Giant loves to smack things you have no control, but is weak in dps. So if he decided to go after a normal mob rather than the Runed one, you have to join in.b) You can fly, mount whatever to drag the Giant towards Runed.c) You will have to do most of dps. The summoned Giant has almost no dps.d) The Runed is quite fragile. Any amount of dps will do damage. But the reverse is also true.e) The summoned Giant will stun the Runed - this is your chance to get most of your dps in if you're melee

I was feral. Just got in high stam bear gear but melee'd as cat. Fast enough not to be caught so probably lost 20% health each time.

There a lots of Runed to north and less mobs so best to try up there.

Commentaire de Rushlol

their dot can be spell reflected by warriors just use spell reflect and during the reflect time the dot u got they got instead :) soloed with lv 73 warrior

Commentaire de TheLuggage

If you're having trouble soloing the giants, you can mine the runes from Megalith, a much easier kill. Just remember that he's needed for a quest, http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=11359 so don't camp the spawn if you see others waiting. Respawn on Megalith is about 2 mins.

Commentaire de DoctorHat

You gotta be kidding about kiting them as DK, that would take a week. It takes too long for it to be worth the experience, just skip the quest and move on.

Commentaire de jmcgrath

Is there a pre-quest for this chain? I can't get them.

*You must do the first quest from Christopher Sloan to be eligible for this.

Commentaire de pagos93

best cords 70, 22 w8 for the yellow giants to turn red and agresive then fight and then use provided item done in 5 mins with 70 blood dk solo

Commentaire de baal80

Just a small tip... if you are a miner be sure to use the RIGHT pick on the corpses...

Commentaire de banewolf

As an affliction Lock this did'nt prove to be too much of a problem, cast CoA and corruption, then just healed my void, if i did get aggro i used soul shatter and the giant was back on the void, due to 5 min cd on Soul Shatter it took a little while but worked out well, small tip, when doing the Rune of command quest, complete it return, get the Megalith quest and while u still have the captive giant find megalith and attack him the captive giant will help.

Commentaire de evankimori

Note one thing with this quest: shapeshifters have some problems mining the corpses while in alternate form. Boomkin form for example. You may get a constant "Invalid target" error. Shift OUT of your alternate form and apply the pick to the corpse and you'll get credit. Don't do like I did and run around killing more thinking that the corpses themselves were bugged.

Commentaire de holv93

I have a 71 Death Knight, blood, and i can kill this one my self. But i don't really understand the quest. I kill them, and then I can'tuse the pick on them?

Commentaire de Hultgren

Any class who can dish out 20k+ ranged dmg and have some kind of cc can do this quest easily since the mobs are easily rotted, stunned and cc:d. I discovered painfully that my feral druid couldn't do it at all since all my attacks are melee, meaning the giant put up those nasty dots that ate my 12k hp away FAST. As a balance druid this quest would be a lot easier cuz keeping the mobs away works fine with roots, typhoon and probably cyclone. I tried to root and then moonfire/starfire/wrath the giant but that failed miseraböly since my mana pool is way to small to do over 20k magic dmg.

I will try "kiting'em to alliance camp"-tactics and if that doesnt work, ill just kill megalith a couple of times.

Commentaire de ChefEscoffier

Others have suggested that you use the summoned creature to help you on this quest, but if you have a class that can kite or immobilize the giant, you can solo it easily because they are not immune to CC.

I soloed as a balance druid at 73. There was no DR on the roots, so i was able to get to range, nuke+dot, then root, run to max range again, and repeat till it dropped.

I should mention I allowed him to get close enough to melee me, so he was able to put a few stacks of the dot-debuff on me. I died before I could get a big heal off because the dot hurts quite a bit, if he stacks it up more than 2-3 times. So don't let him get more than 1-2 stacks of that debuff on you and just nuke+kite, or nuke+immobilize, run back out to max range, then repeat till he drops.

Commentaire de Croma

Easily soloable as an arcane mage. They are indeed slowable.

Commentaire de dbodinem

This is possible to solo as a 71 prot. pally (mostly quest greens and 2 blues), but some things to know.

1. The Quest, "Rune of Command" does make it easier, so don't turn it in right away.2. The giants do shadow damage (a lot of it-which I was surprised by), so you might want your shadow protection aura on.3. They stun quite frequently so be ready for that.4. I used a healing pot as well as healing myself quite frequently and ran out of mana at the end of the fight.5. Megalith is actually easier than this mob since he has a knockback (thx...now i've got a couple of seconds to heal) and doesn't do shadow damage...straight melee from what i could tell.

This took a lot of trial and error to get the four, actually killed 5 because 1 time I mined it b4 using the rune pick...doh! But I kept trying, died 3 different times, but couldnt' find a group to do it.

Of all the elites in Howling Fjord (outside of dungeons and the storm giants) this was the single hardest mob for me to solo (Glacion and those undead elites in Gjalerbron were cake by comparison (no surprise-I'm a pally and undead hold a special place in my heart))... Hammer of Justice worked, but Avenger's Shield seemed to not slow them down at all.

Good luck. Hope this helps somebody. I've done this quest on 6 toons now and the prot. specced pally and assassination specced rogue are the only toons who've succeeded at soloing it at the appropriate level though. Rogue just cheap shotted, kidney shotted and dodge his way through.

Commentaire de rubber

For a priest this was kinda hard for me. For those that want to wait to make this quest east try this. You will get a quest called (Free at last) from Gavrock in the Grizzly Hills. It allows you to shrink the giants in that area and after you kill them mine them :D Hope this helps.

Commentaire de Chimpy2

I couldn't solo this as a 72 fury warrior. They hit too hard, even with the giant pet, it dies too fast and cant hold aggro.

Commentaire de Judaskristo

Solo'd yesterday as a 73 Afflic Lock wearing Northrend blues and green quest rewards. Summoned void as tank then health funneled it until it has a high aggro lead then started popping DoT's.

When my void couldn't hold aggro anymore i used Shadow Ward and Sac'd my void for protection for the giant's DoTs while mine ticked on it until it died.

*I don't have CoE btw, would be easier w/ CoE i guess*

Commentaire de SeerSarah

I soloed the giants as a level 74 enhancement shaman. Just use spirit wolves and your earth or fire elemental totem, and use maelstrom weapon for instant heals. And don't attack more than one at a time (trust me, it's a bad idea....)

Commentaire de Paah

Easily soloed as Unholy DK, just build up runic power on the normal mobs, then send your gargoyle and ghoul in while throwing chains of ice / icy touch to the giants to keep aggro and keep them away from you, and ghoul frenzy to keep your ghoul healthy if giant manages to hit him with rune fists. The giants always had only 2-4k health left when the gargoyle did run out. Nothing you can't take care of with couple of scourge strikes.

Commentaire de Rainbear

Very easy as a combat rogue. I would only lose 5000 hp at a max for each fight.

Commentaire de baldrwr

These mobs have apparently had their speed nerfed. I have found that they do not run faster than normal. As Alliance Shadow Priest, it was simple to dot and kite it to the guards in Fort Wildervar.

Your recommended path along the lake is the best one. If run along the foothills a little further North, it will eventually reset the mob.

Commentaire de PastOverFuture

As playong on a server with few people, hard to get help. I thougth I would try to log on a page like this and try to help a bit with how I did stuff. .Just to realise that the stuff I tryed are explained on this page. Atleast I know now that Im not that lame.

Commentaire de Wingzero6225

I solo'd it on my ret pally, not easily, wait for your divine sheild and if your lay on hands is up use it

Commentaire de jjstraka

Soloed as a blood DK at 70, these guys are tough. Pop a ghoul, Mark of Blood, Death Strike early because the knockback they do early is a killer. You lose health quick to these guys. Next cooldown to use is Vampiric Blood and Rune Tap. Sacrifice your ghoul before they die to get 40% health, and Icebound Fortitude and a potion if you need it. These guys are way more powerful than you would think, I died twice before I got the fight down.

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Commentaire de Lithios5

Is this quest bugged? I was killing these giants as a Retadin, lvl 72, some killed me though/ But many times when I tried to use to pick on the corpse it said invalid target?

Commentaire de Ramanas

Managed to solo this quest as a lvl71 Frost Spec mage, found out that you are actually unable to spell steal his buff, since everytime you try it just comes out nothing to steal, So mage's i wouldn't even bother trying it although it states in above comments that you can.But if your frost spec'd just hope for lucky Frostbite proc's and if not then just Frost Nova in place and use Deep Freeze and nuke them down. Only 1 out of the 4 mobs actually got close and hit me so you shouldn't have any issues.

Also i was in basic gear from Northrend and some items from Utgarde Keep & Nexus so you don't need Tier Items or Heirlooms to be able to kill these guys :)

Happy Hunting.

Commentaire de Flawedspirit

Soloable as a 73 Prot Paladin. This one took everything in my bag of tricks. Buffed with Blessing of Sanctuary and Devotion Aura to start.

I started off with Avenger's Shield to slow them and give me time to nuke them while they ran to me, and entered melee with Avenging Wrath and Stoneform (if you happen to be a Dwarf), and giving it everything I had with Seal of Command/Judgment of Wisdom, and whatever else popped up that could do damage.

Heal as you approach 50% health if you can, and watch out for the stun. Hammer of Justice is good near the end so you can make sure you don't get surprise-killed when the Giant is at low health. Lay on Hands or Bubble-heal is good in an emergency, but you won't need those most of the time. You will come out of this fight near dead, Ardent Defender ticking, and with no mana, but certainly alive enough to finish the quest.

And watch out for Sentinels. Fighting an elite mob and one (or more) of those will certainly cause you to die. Good luck.

Commentaire de Tapamig

Solo'd as a disc priest lvl 73 with crappy Karazhan-gear.

Ohyeah

Tried going for Megalith instead, but thinking of the knockbacks it wasn't easier.

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Commentaire de blobbymac

Very easy as a L71 BM hunter quest gear. Tenacious pet. I took no damage and even took out a couple of adds

Commentaire de creepywillow

I kept getting an "Invalid Target" message when using the Runeseeking Pick on the Runed Stone Giants corpses. I found that some of the giants were considered invalid targets while some were not.

I killed a total of 8 Runed Stone Giants to complete this quest.

Commentaire de ittybittykitty69

Interestingly, the neutral elite giants do not seem to count towards this quest, only the hostile non-elite giants are valid targets that can be 'analysed'... just tested it!

Commentaire de ittybittykitty69

Just done this quest - the neutral elite giants did not count towards the quest for me, I could only 'analyse' the hostile non-elite giants. Maybe this explains why some are valid targets and some not?

Commentaire de Agie222

You have to kill The Runed Stone Giants they're the one's that look like trees, not the Iron Rune Sentinels they're the metal ones they are an invalid target look at the second and third screenshots for a picture(##RESPBREAK##)16##DELIM##Sas148##DELIM##